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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad.
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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
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You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.
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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
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I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.
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